A police surveillance image used by prosecutors during Harold Fitzgerald's trial shows him picking up a package containing drugs at a vacant apartment in Delaware.

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SEAN O'SULLIVAN
The News Journal

WILMINGTON -- The last defendant in a cocaine operation that flooded Delaware with the illicit drug -- and frustrated law enforcement's attempts to stop it for several years -- was sentenced this week in federal court.

Harold Fitzgerald, 35, of Chester, Pa., was sentenced to 20 years in prison by District Judge Leonard P. Stark.

Fitzgerald essentially was the chief operating officer of the distribution ring that had been using Federal Express to supply the Delaware area with more than 250 kilograms of cocaine, worth an estimated $5 million, between 2004 and 2007, according to prosecutors. ...